After coming out of the hotel, Zhou Xun said: "Sorry, I delayed your schedule."
"It's okay. I haven't thanked you yet. You can still think of me for such a good thing." Li Tang said, patting the script in his hand.
Zhou Xun said seriously: "I was very moved after reading this script. I have never tried a role like the little tailor. And when I saw Ma Jianling and Luo Ming in it, I thought of you immediately. Actually..."
At this point, she looked at Chen Kun next to her a little embarrassedly and said, "Actually, I think you are more suitable for Luo Ming, but Kun'er got there first."
Chen Kun looked obviously a little embarrassed and said bravely: "I'm sorry, Brother Li."
Li Tang just took a rough look at the synopsis of the story, which is about two educated youths and a young tailor who is the granddaughter of an old tailor in the village. Two hot-blooded young men fell in love with a beautiful and cheerful little tailor at the same time. Ma Jianling is relatively reserved and buries love deeply in her heart. Luo Ming, on the other hand, was more proactive and bravely expressed his love to the little tailor.
In fact, according to Li Tang's character, as Zhou Xun said, he is more suitable for the role of Luo Ming. The restrained Ma Jianling is closer to the Ma Da in "Suzhou River".
No wonder even Dai Sijie said that he is more suitable to play Ma Jianling.
Of course, this is just an appearance from the synopsis of the story, so when he heard Chen Kun's apology, Li Tang smiled and said: "It's okay, I haven't read the script yet. Maybe I think it is more suitable to play Ma Jianling."
After saying goodbye to the two of them, Li Tang did not let Shen Lin drive immediately. He called Zeng Jia while sitting in the car and told her what happened just now.
"There must be no problem with the schedule, Brother Li, what do you think?"
"Of course I have to read the script before I can decide."
"Then let me ask around. Brother Li, are you leaving now?"
"Of course I'm leaving."
"Then I'll ask the airline to see what's the fastest flight."
Flights between Beijing and Shanghai are very busy, and there is basically one flight every half hour, but it does not necessarily depend on the same airline.
After a while, Zeng Jia called and canceled the originally changed ticket and booked a new one.
Li Tang originally wanted to call Fan Xiaopang, but he calculated the time and decided not to disturb her since she was currently taking a line class.
…
"call……"
As the plane circled over Pudong Airport and landed slowly, Li Tang breathed a sigh of relief. He had just two hours to finish reading the script.
Having read the synopsis before, he knew that this was a book with a scar literature theme.
Li Tang was no stranger to the educated youth throughout his life, because his parents were educated youth in his previous life, and in his original memory, Lao Li and many of Lao Li's friends were also educated youth.
And they each have different understandings of educated youth. For example, his parents in his previous life were often full of resentment towards that era when they recalled the life of educated youth, and described their life as an educated youth back then as very miserable.
But Lao Li was just the opposite. In his own words, even in Jiangxi, he was still enjoying life like a fish in water, neither hungry nor cold. He relished the fragrant rice, the fish and shrimp caught in the river, and the game caught in the mountains. But what makes him most proud is that he married the most beautiful girl among the educated youth and gave birth to a promising son.
Obviously, the life of educated youth described by Dai Sijie in the script is similar to what his parents told him in his previous life. It is not surprising that Dai Sijie was among the first batch of international students to study in France after the reform, and finally settled and naturalized as a French-Chinese.
Because they are the same kind of people.
Li Tang had not experienced that era. Although he was born in Jiangxi, he had no memory of that time because he was too young. All his current understanding of educated youth comes from the stories told by his parents and the so-called scar literature that was very popular in the market in the 1980s. So he himself didn't have much say in that era.
Moreover, the life of educated youths described by Dai Sijie is deep in the mountains of western Sichuan, which is definitely not as good as Jiangxi, a land of plenty.
The biggest reason why this script did not offend Li Tang was that Dai Sijie did not complain blindly. He just used that crazy era as the background and used a relaxed and humorous attitude to use this heavy history as an object of good-natured ridicule.
The violin-playing Ma Jianling described in the script ended up being a musician traveling in France. Li Tang felt that Ma Jianling might be Dai Sijie himself. And that "Balzac and the Little Chinese Tailor" may be his memory or fantasy of his youth.
When the plane landed at Pudong Airport, the lights were already on. No one was there to pick me up, so I called a taxi back to the city.
"Hey, big star, Guan Guanchenguang hasn't come for a long time!"
Walking into a small Cantonese dim sum shop, the owner greeted me warmly.
"What do you want to eat?"
"One person, just make some."
"Do you want to drink old wine?"
"No, let's make a cup of herbal tea."
A plate of beef fried rice noodles, a cage of shrimp dumplings, and a delicious old-fashioned soup were enough to fill his hungry belly. Thinking that Xiaopang was still struggling to lose weight, Li Tang packed another brine platter and prepared to welcome Xiaopang in the evening. Take another two sips when the fat guy calls you.
When I got home, I had just taken a shower. Xiaopang's call didn't come, but Zeng Jia's call came first.
"Brother Li, I have inquired clearly. "Balzac and the Little Chinese Tailor" was indeed the best-seller in France last year. That Film Company is the third largest film production and distribution company in France. In fact, they started very early. The casting was done, and it is said that the target was Zhang Ziyi from the beginning. Zhang Ziyi agreed at the time, and also put forward a condition that Xie Tingfeng would be appointed to play one of the male protagonists. But later, I don’t know why it didn’t happen, I think it’s a high probability It was because of the remuneration issue. Later I found Zhou Xun..."
Li Tang didn't expect that Zeng Jia would feed back the relevant information so quickly. Listening to Zeng Jia's introduction on the phone, the only thing Li Tang could be sure of was that Dai Sijie must have had enough money when he dared to go to Zhang Ziyi in the first place.
As for Zeng Jia's speculation that the film failed due to salary issues, the problem may lie with Xie Tingfeng. Think about a young Hong Kong actor who earns millions from his films. No matter how popular he is, in Dai Sijie's eyes there will definitely be a big difference from the image of educated youth he has experienced and witnessed with his own eyes.
I immediately targeted Zhang Ziyi. In addition to Zhang Ziyi's current high popularity and international reputation, another big factor is that Zhang Ziyi's image of Zhao Di in "My Father and Mother" should be very similar to the little tailor in the script. consistent.
"Brother Li, have you read the script? How do you feel about it?" Zeng Jia then asked.
"Well, the script is okay."
"Then do you mean to pick up or..."
Zeng Jia's meaning was obvious. Since he thought the script was okay, he shouldn't let go of such a good opportunity.
Li Tang pondered for a while and then said: "Take it, but this matter is not urgent for the time being."
Zeng Jia on the other end of the phone really connected with him and said immediately: "I understand, please stretch your arms first."
The reason why Li Tang considered taking on this drama was that on the one hand the script was really good, on the other hand there was Zhou Xun's reputation, and of course the most important issue was the remuneration.
He is short of money now, and since this crew is not short of money, he may be able to negotiate a good price.
More than one million yuan was spent on "The Third Man". Although Li Tang is now looking forward to being shortlisted for overseas film festivals, preferably to receive an award or something, so that he can sell it at a good price, but Sun Tzu's Art of War has this saying: Do Before anything else, consider failure and then success and benefit. So he is now mentally prepared to lose money or even lose money, and now he just wants to make more money.
After he hung up Zeng Jia's phone, Fan Xiaopang's call came in.
"Who are you calling? I've been calling for a long time and I haven't even gotten a call."
Little girls in love are always wary.
"It's Jiajia. I'm discussing something with her today."
"You didn't even call me when you left. Later, when I called you, your phone was turned off, and I knew you were on the plane." Xiaopang said in a resentful tone on the phone.
"I'm afraid of disturbing your class."
Xiaopang hummed twice on the phone, reluctantly accepting his explanation, and then asked: "By the way, what does Zhou Xun want from you?"
"Oh, she introduced me to a play, and I met with the director and producer in the afternoon."
"Friendly guest appearance?"
"No, it's the male lead."
"Wow, is it true? Is it a movie or a TV series?" Xiaopang asked in surprise.
"Movie."
"..."
Hearing the word movie, Xiaopang felt so sad. She had just tasted movies, and to be honest, she felt very complicated. On the one hand, movies were not as high-intensity as filming TV series, but they paid special attention to excellence, and every shot had to be discussed and adjusted repeatedly. As an actor, she felt creative for the first time and realized the so-called art represented by movies. Because of this, she particularly likes this feeling and is looking forward to appearing on the big screen.
But this kind of opportunity is too rare for me, but Teacher Li takes the initiative to come to my door with movies. She wasn't jealous at this time, because she knew her level was far behind Li Tang, but she was just annoyed.
"Oh, it's so boring. When will I get a chance to make a movie!"
"Don't worry, if you work hard now, you will definitely have a chance in the future."
Having said that, Xiaopang's current manager Chang Jihong is deeply tied to Hairun, and Hairun is a TV drama production company. If Xiaopang wants to move to the big screen, it will not be an easy thing, unless it is his own. The ability is particularly outstanding and has box office appeal.
Second update, shameless to ask for a vote!
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